These are the basic exercise techniques and strategies endorsed by Dr David Duke which will provide an all-round healthy exercise regime and lifestyle.
By Dr. Mercola. A new study examining the difference between lifting heavy weights, as opposed to a lighter load, to the point of muscle failure, has shown that there is no difference in the way your body responds to the weight usedi.
Scientists measured both muscle volume and strength gains as part of their experiment.
According to the authors:
“In accordance with our previous acute measurements of muscle protein synthetic rates a lower load lifted to failure resulted in similar hypertrophy as a heavy load lifted to failure.”
This confirms what fitness experts like Dr. Doug McGuff teaches, and what I have personally been doing for some time.
The key to increase muscle and improve fitness lies in working your muscle to fatigue, but you don’t need to lift heavy weights to do so.
There is a Goldilock’s zone, however, where the weight is heavy enough to bring you to fatigue within a certain amount of repetitions, but not so heavy that you cannot complete the set within a minute or two.
